Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Google Kind of Makes Me Nervous

So, does anyone else get a little nervous about opening their Gmail account? No? Well, that is good. A good sign you’re not as paranoid as I am! There I am, just innocently opening my email to see what great invitations, deadlines, or opportunities await, and my eyes are drawn to the right of the screen. There they are--Advertisements. But not just your random mortgage, loose weight, better than botox ads I get in my Yahoo account. Oh no, Google is so much better. Somehow they KNOW what your email is about. So I open a random email about tickets to a baseball game from some person on a random listserv I belong to. And then, there they are, ads for baseball stuff—baseball in general, Nationals tickets, LDS posters (since it’s an LDS listserv), etc. Granted, sometimes Google gets confused and it doesn’t quite match. But ultimately, I am pretty sure Google is positioning itself to take over the country. They know too much…now if they combine with Facebook, they would take over the world.

So apparently today is Earth Day...

And this post, my friends, is the way I get to take a break from my darn museum about puppets. I thought museums just took people’s crap (that’s what the Heritage Center did, after all). But NO, apparently there are guidelines above guidelines and forms above forms to follow and fill out. I get to make all that up (isn't school great?). Very helpful and so much fun. Seriously, who knew I would rather be writing my 25 page research paper? Not me…but somehow it seems easier.

On Record

"No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever."-Francois Mauriac

"We must not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time."-T.S. Eliot

"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important."-Bertrand Russell

"The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them."- Albert Einstein

"Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair."-George Burns"Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost."-Martina Navratilova

"I feel like 'Cactus Gavvy' Cravath. Do you know who that is? Right. Nobody does. He's the guy who had the home run record before Babe Ruth came along."-Tom Walsh, of Washington D.C. (He held the record for "Jeopardy" winnings until Ken Jennings of SLC broke it.)